Rope-reel



(No Model.)

W. M. KIZER &-G. W. (BLINK.

ROPE'REEL. l

y No. 329,053. Patented 001;. 27, 18815.

' INVENTOR: V W

ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

WVILLIAM M. KIZER AND CHARLES \V. OLINK, OF WVINFIELD, MICHIGAN.

ROPE-REEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 329,053, dated October27, 1885.

Application filed July 12, 1884. Serial No. 137,587. (No model) I aZZwhom it may concern: Suitable collars or thimbles, D D, are placed Be itknown that we, WILLIAM M. KIZER on the shaft B outside of the disks 0 O,and and CHARLES W. CLINK, of Winfield, in the these collars haveset-screws d d, by which county of Montcalm and State of Michigan, they,may be fixed on the shaft to hold the 5 5 haveinventedanew and ImprovedRope-Bee], disks in place on their hub-bearings.

of which the followingis afull, clear, and exact We prefer to make theshaftBsqu are in crossdescription. section between the outer ends of theopposite The object of our invention is to provide a collars D D, and wemake the shaft round at simple, inexpensive, and efficient reel deviceeach end outside of the collars, to form end 10 for holding coils ofrope or twine for the eonjournals, b b, which may enter suitablebearvenience of storekeepers and others in tying ings in a stand forsupporting the reel clear up packages or retailing the rope. of thetable, counter, or floor, so that the reel The invention consists in arope or twine may turn as the twine or rope is unwound reel constructedwith connected end frames fromit,

15 provided with radial slots, rotatable disks Each of the arms a has alengthwise slot, F, mounted next the end. frames and provided near thejoint of the arms with each other with cam or eccentric slots,andcross-rods enand radiating from the central shaft, B, and tering theradial and eccentric slots, so that each of the end disks, 0 O, has aseries of ecupon turning the disks the rods may be eX- centric or camslots, G, corresponding in num-- o panded to tighten within the coil ofrope. ber with the radial slots F of the adjacent end The inventionconsists, also, in various deframe of the reel. tails of constructionand combination of parts Before the end disk 0 is applied to the of thereel, whereby it is made extensible or reel-shaftoutside of the endframe A a rod, adjustable endwise, and may be readily dis- H, is passedthrough the slot F of each arm a 2 membered to receive the rope coil,and whereof the frame until a collar, h, on the rod comes by also therods may be held fully expanded against the face of the arm. The disk 0then and securely against the inside of the coil, all is placed on itshub-bearing b, and so that the as hereinafter fully described andclaimed. ends h of all the rods H will pass into the in- Reference is tobe had to the accompanying ner ends, of the corresponding cam-slots G,

3o drawings, forminga part of this specification, the rods then being onthe inner ends, f, of in which similar letters of reference indicate theslots F. The opposite end frame, A, and corresponding parts in both thefigures. the disk 0 will then be passed upon the shaft Figure 1 is anend elevation of our improved B, and with the ends h of the rods Hpassed rope-reel, and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal and into the inner endsof the radial and cam slots 3 5 partly sectional elevation of the same.of the frame A and disk 0, respectively, and The letters A A indicate,respectively, the the collar or thimble D will then be fixed on I, twoend frames of the reel, each of which are the shaft outside of the disk0. The coil of made in the example shown of a pair of bars rope or twineis slipped onto or around the framed together at their centers and atright rods H before the end frame A is placed on c 40 angles to eachother, and so as to form the the shaft.

four arms a a a a, which may be shaped as With this construction, whenthe opposite handles at their outer ends. WVe connect the end disks areturned, the eccentric or cam end frames, A A, by a central shaft, B, andslots of the disks 0 (3 will carry the rods H we propose to mount theend frame A tightly outward along the radial slots of the reel- 5 45ontheshaft, and the opposite frame, A, loosely frames A A and spread theseveral rods H thereon. apart, so as to take hold of the inside of theOn the centers of the end frames, A A, and coil of twine or rope to bindit firmly to the at the outside face, we fix or form hubs b b, on reel,so as to revolve only as the reel revolves, which are mounted so as toturn freely the and not' slip around the reel, which would 5c disks orplates 0 0, outside of the respective quickly entangle the twine.

end frames, A A. To hold the rods H expanded tightly to the inside ofthe coil of twine or rope, we provide pawls I I for the respective endframes, which pawls are pivoted on pins z 2', respectively, to one ofthe arms a of each frame, and engage ratohetteeth c on the end disks, 0O. Springs j j, made preferably of elastic wire and fastened to the armsof the end frames, hold the pawls into the ratchet-teeth.

' We have arranged the cam-slots G of the opposite disks'G C, so thatthe disks are to be turned by their handles to la in reverse directionsto expand the rods H evenly or parallel with each other; consequentlythe opposite pawls I I and their respective ratchet-teeth c c on thedisks are reversely arranged; but it is evident that the cam-slots ofthe opposite disks may be arranged to expand the rods H by a movement ofbothdisks in the same direction, in which case the opposite end pawlsand ratchet-teeth will be arranged alike. On raising the .pawls from theteeth the bars H may be moved inward or toward each other again by areverse motion of the cam-slot disks, as will be readily understood.

The end frame A, with its disk 0, may be moved to any point along theshaft B, and there held by its collar D, so that coils of twine or ropeof any size may be clamped between the end frames to be unwound from thereel, as required for use.

There may be more or less than four of the rods H, as shown, and thenumber of the slots F G at each end of the reel will of course correspond with the number of the rods.

Having thus described our invention, we

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A rope-reelconstructed withconnected end frames having radial slots, rotatabledisks or plates mounted at the sides of the end 0 frames and providedwith cam or eccentric slots, and rods for supporting the rope coilentered into the radial and cam slots of the end frames and disks,respectively, substantially as herein sh own and described.

2. The combination, in a rope-reel, of the connected end frames, A A,having radial slots F, the disks 0 0, having cam-slots G, and the rodsH, entering the slots F G, substantially as herein shown and described.so

3. The combination, in a rope-reel, of the end frame, A, provided withslots F and fixed to the shaft B, the disk 0. having slots G and mountedto turn 011 a hearing, I), of the frame A, the rods H, passed throughthe slots F G of frame A and provided with the collars it between theframe and the disk, the collar D, fixed to the shaft B outside of thedisk 0, the loosely-mounted and correspondingly-slotted end frame, A,and rotatable disk 0, and the collar D, substantially as shown anddescribed. 4. The combination, with the radially-slotted end frames, AA, and eccentrically-slotted disks 0 O, of the spring-pawls I I,substantially as shown and described.

WILLIAM M. KIZER. CHARLES W. GLINK. Witnesses:

LEROY L. KIZER, ORVILLE BALL.

